DIY: Third Brake Light in LED
09-24-2011, 01:48 PM
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DIY: Third Brake Light in LED
Just received my led 3rd brake light today and was faced with a wee bit of an issue with the right hand quadrant of LEDs not lighting up. This is a very simple fix but I figured I would show some pics just incase.
The fix is probably one of the easiest fixes ever. Just open up the assembly (there are 2 screws on the black piece that are holding the cover to the LED board), and take your trusty soldering iron and give each joint a retapping. To test out the assembly, you can simply hook up the wires to the black and yellow (+5v) pins on a standard molex connector from a computer PSU. If all goes well, you should be back in business.
The fix is probably one of the easiest fixes ever. Just open up the assembly (there are 2 screws on the black piece that are holding the cover to the LED board), and take your trusty soldering iron and give each joint a retapping. To test out the assembly, you can simply hook up the wires to the black and yellow (+5v) pins on a standard molex connector from a computer PSU. If all goes well, you should be back in business.
02-25-2012, 12:38 AM
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check ebay,amazon they are everywhere, and just if anyone is doing it upgrading to all LEDS in the rear like I have just so you know you will load resistors for the blinkers and the 3rd brake light for a total of 3 load resistors, or otherwise when your lights are on it will throw a ABS light and make weird sounds where the abs unit is( behind the center of the dash where radio is, not cool.) just a heads up I'm still waiting on my load resistor for 3rd brake light got it from superbrightleds.com
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